When you think of Quentin Tarantino, classic films like “Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction,” and “Django Unchained” certainly come to mind. But what about the critically reviled “Saturday Night Live” sketch adaptation “It’s Pat”? Or the Michael Bay Alcatraz action movie “The Rock”? Tarantino’s fingerprints have been all over the movies ever since his breakout debut in 1992, and some of his projects are way more bizarre than others.
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The director is currently getting together his ninth feature, which will be his penultimate effort behind the camera if his retirement talks are to be believed. Sources say Tarantino is putting together a drama involving the Manson family murders and that he’s eyeing Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lawrence to star. As the filmmakers looks to the future for his next project, we...
Read More:Quentin Tarantino Wants Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lawrence For New Movie, And They Shouldn’t Resist
The director is currently getting together his ninth feature, which will be his penultimate effort behind the camera if his retirement talks are to be believed. Sources say Tarantino is putting together a drama involving the Manson family murders and that he’s eyeing Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lawrence to star. As the filmmakers looks to the future for his next project, we...
- 8/22/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Justified, Season 6, Episode 4: “The Trash and the Snake”
Written by Chris Provenzano and Ingrid Escajeda
Directed by Adam Arkin
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
When it comes to planned-in-advance TV endings, in general, you can do it straight, or you can do it serpentine. Do it straight (Breaking Bad, The Wire) and you guarantee a high degree of fan contentedness, though usually at the cost of spontaneity. Do it serpentine (Lost, Battlestar Galactica, The Sopranos) and you run the risk of pissing off a large percentage of the fanbase, though you’ll have the side-benefit of being debated into eternity. On occasion, a series finds a way to split the difference and reaps incredible rewards. Justified seems destined to opt for the former route. While it’s supplied some artful twists and surprise developments in the past, it’s never been a series built on narrative trickery or hifalutin thematic development.
Written by Chris Provenzano and Ingrid Escajeda
Directed by Adam Arkin
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
When it comes to planned-in-advance TV endings, in general, you can do it straight, or you can do it serpentine. Do it straight (Breaking Bad, The Wire) and you guarantee a high degree of fan contentedness, though usually at the cost of spontaneity. Do it serpentine (Lost, Battlestar Galactica, The Sopranos) and you run the risk of pissing off a large percentage of the fanbase, though you’ll have the side-benefit of being debated into eternity. On occasion, a series finds a way to split the difference and reaps incredible rewards. Justified seems destined to opt for the former route. While it’s supplied some artful twists and surprise developments in the past, it’s never been a series built on narrative trickery or hifalutin thematic development.
- 2/12/2015
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Justified, Season 6, Episode 2: “Cash Game”
Written by Dave Andron and VJ Boyd
Directed by Dean Parisot
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
Truth be told: not a hell of a lot happens in “Cash Game.” Despite the fact that it only has eleven more episodes to go after this one, Justified is still Justified, and this has never been a series that’s felt the need to hurry up its seasons’ first acts. Instead, it uses its time to sell us on this season’s cast of rogues, as well as indulging in a pleasant number of comic asides, reminding us that, at its core, Justified is a fun series, though that has been difficult to remember throughout some of its recent, darker patches.
Much of the action this week directly follow’s from Boyd’s apparently failed heist last week, including the introduction of the mark, local...
Written by Dave Andron and VJ Boyd
Directed by Dean Parisot
Airs Tuesdays at 10pm Et on FX
Truth be told: not a hell of a lot happens in “Cash Game.” Despite the fact that it only has eleven more episodes to go after this one, Justified is still Justified, and this has never been a series that’s felt the need to hurry up its seasons’ first acts. Instead, it uses its time to sell us on this season’s cast of rogues, as well as indulging in a pleasant number of comic asides, reminding us that, at its core, Justified is a fun series, though that has been difficult to remember throughout some of its recent, darker patches.
Much of the action this week directly follow’s from Boyd’s apparently failed heist last week, including the introduction of the mark, local...
- 1/28/2015
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Following surprise casting as the voice of Leonardo in the reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from producer Michael Bay (watch the teaser trailer), Johnny Knoxville is ready to get back into the comedy game again. Deadline reports the Jackass star is attached to lead Sick Day, a new comedy at Universal Pictures with The Break-Up writer Jeremy Garelick set to direct, following his latest comedy The Wedding Ringer with Kevin Hart and Josh Gad. Similar to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the film follows three friends who uphold a tradition of calling in sick one day a year to fulfill fantasies while not getting caught. Knoxville's attempts at narrative comedy haven't fared very well with films like The Ringer, The Dukes of Hazzard, Daltry Calhoun and Life Without Dick in his past. Walking Tall has probably been his best big screen work outside of the Jackass franchise and the recent spin-off Bad Granpda,...
- 4/29/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
The biggest story of the last week, by a mile, was the debut of the first trailer for Quentin Tarantino's sure-to-be-controversial Western "Django Unchained." Starring Jamie Foxx as the title character, a slave out to rescue his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), with bounty hunter Christoph Waltz as his mentor and companion Dr. King Schultz, and Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, one of the villains, it was already one of the most anticipated films of the year beforehand, but the excellent teaser has certainly raised expectations even further.
With the trailer now having been out there for a few days, we thought it was a good time to dig into a little, and highlight some of the less obvious moments in the clip -- hints and glimpses of some of the characters who'll play key roles in the script, as well as one example of the kind of Easter Egg...
With the trailer now having been out there for a few days, we thought it was a good time to dig into a little, and highlight some of the less obvious moments in the clip -- hints and glimpses of some of the characters who'll play key roles in the script, as well as one example of the kind of Easter Egg...
- 6/11/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Chopsocky revivalist and part-time CSI guy Quentin Tarantino has reportedly set his sites on the small screen again. According to MediaVillage, the Kill Bill director is teaming up with country music producer and Nashville Star judge Anastasia Brown to develop a scripted dramatic TV series set in Nashville. The pair, who worked together on the 2005 comedy Daltry Calhoun, will reunite with the film's star Johnny Knoxville for the untitled pilot. The project has not yet been picked up by a network and is looking to be ready by 2007.
- 4/14/2006
- IMDbPro News
Miramax Films is moving forward with the production of Daltry Calhoun, gearing up for a Sept. 25 start date with Johnny Knoxville in final negotiations to topline. Juliette Lewis, Elizabeth Banks, David Koechner and Kick Gurry also are on board to star in the project, sources confirmed. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Katrina Holden Bronson. Miramax and Quentin Tarantino's L. Driver Prods. are co-producing. The project brings Knoxville and Tarantino back to their roots: Both are originally from Knoxville, Tenn., the setting for Daltry Calhoun. The project, penned by Bronson, is described as a dark comedy about a father (Knoxville) struggling to keep his once lucrative Tennessee golfing empire intact when his estranged 14-year-old daughter -- a gifted musician -- is unexpectedly left in his care.
- 9/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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